Good Intentions Gone Bad

The Romney problem has since been fixed. The Austria-Australia problem is likely due to Google seeing lots of searches for “austria’s biggest businesses” that get changed by searchers themselves to “australia’s biggest businesses.”

It is easy to accidentally type the wrong name, and if that is happening a lot, then Google might have automatically thought “Austria” was a mistake it was trying to helpfully correct to “Australia.”

Chances are, Google will override this in the near future or tweak its algorithm.

Now go watch this classic clip from Crocodile Dundee, which puts the headline in this story into perspective, for those who don’t get it: